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IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Known as The Enchantress of Numbers by many inventors and mathematicians of the 19th century, Ada Lovelace is recognized today as history's first computer programmer. Her work was an inspiration to such famous minds as Charles Babbage and Alan Turing. This is her story--
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"A New York Times Bestseller 2014, 2015" "The Imitation Game, Winner of the 2015 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay" "Winner of the 2015 (27th) USC Libraries Scripter Award, University of Southern California Libraries" "One of The Guardian's Best Popular Physical Science Books of 2014, chosen by GrrlScientist" Andrew Hodges teaches mathematics at the University of Oxford. Douglas Hofstadter is the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished...
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English
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A new biography of Lewis Carroll, just in time for the release of Tim Burton's all-star Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll was brilliant, secretive and self-contradictory. He reveled in double meanings and puzzles, in his fiction and his life. Jenny Woolf's The Mystery of Lewis Carroll shines a new light on the creator of Alice In Wonderland and brings to life this fascinating, but sometimes exasperating human being whom some have tried to hide. Using...
4) Alan Turing
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Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
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English
5) Ada Lovelace
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Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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English
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Presents information about Ada Lovelace, from her childhood in England and her studies in mathematics to her development of the first computer programming language.
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Melville House
Pub. Date
[2014]
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xvi, 254 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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English
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The world's first computer programmer and daughter of Lord Byron finally gets credit for her research in this gossipy short biography Over 150 years after her death, a widely-used scientific computer program was named Ada, after Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the eighteenth century's version of a rock star, Lord Byron. Why? Because, after computer pioneers such as Alan Turing began to rediscover her, it slowly became apparent that...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2012
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300 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Turing can be regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. But who was Turing, and what did he achieve during his tragically short life of 41 years? Best known as the genius who broke Germany's most secret codes during the war of 1939-45, Turing was also the father of the modern computer. Today, all who 'click-to-open' are familiar with the impact of Turing's ideas.
Here, B. Jack Copeland provides an account of Turing's life and...
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